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An unsigned 1990 article unearthed by Politico offers a glimpse at Obama's views on abortion policy and the law during his student days.
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As president of the Harvard Law Review and a law professor in Chicago, Senator Barack Obama refined his legal thinking, but left a scant paper trail. His name doesn't appear on any legal scholarship.

But an unsigned — and previously unattributed — 1990 article unearthed by Politico offers a glimpse at Obama's views on abortion policy and the law during his student days, and provides a rare addition to his body of work.

The six-page summary, tucked into the third volume of the year's Harvard Law Review, considers the charged, if peripheral, question of whether fetuses should be able to file lawsuits against their mothers. Obama's answer, like most courts': No. He wrote approvingly of an Illinois Supreme Court ruling that the unborn cannot sue their mothers for negligence, and he suggested that allowing fetuses to sue would violate the mother's rights and could, perversely, cause her to take more risks with her pregnancy.

The subject matter took Obama to the treacherous political landscape of reproductive rights, and - unlike many student authors - he dived eagerly into the policy implications of the court decision. His article acknowledged a public interest in the health of the fetus, but also seemed to demonstrate his continuing commitment to abortion rights, and suggested that the government may have more important concerns than "ensuring that any particular fetus is born."

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The temperate legal language doesn't display the rhetorical heights that run through his memoir, published a few years later, but provides insight into his support for abortion rights and expanded social services.

"[T]he case raises the broader policy and constitutional considerations that argue against using civil liability to control the behavior of pregnant women," Obama wrote of Stallman vs. Youngquist.

And he concluded the article with a flourish: "Expanded access to prenatal education and heath care facilities will far more likely serve the very real state interest in preventing increasing numbers of children from being born in to lives of pain and despair."

Law students elected to the prestigious Harvard Law Review spend two years working there. In their first year, most write the brief, anonymous "case comments" like Obama's, which bears the unwieldy heading: TORT LAW - PRENATAL INJURIES - SUPREME COURT OF ILLINOIS REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE CAUSE OF ACTION BROUGHT BY FETUS AGAINST ITS MOTHER FOR UNINTENTIONAL INFLICTION OF PRENATAL INJURIES.

But Obama has never mentioned his law review piece, a demurral that's part of his campaign's broader pattern of rarely volunteering information or documents about the candidate, even when relatively innocuous. When Politico reporters working on a story about Obama's law review presidency earlier this year asked if he had written for the review, a spokesman responded accurately - but narrowly - that "as the president of the Law Review, Obama didn't write articles, he edited and reviewed them."

The case comment was published a month before he became president.

The notion that Obama hadn't written at all for the Review prompted skepticism.

"They probably don't want [to] have you [reporters] going back" to examine the Review, University of Southern California law professor (and Michael Dukakis campaign manager) Susan Estrich said at the time.

The Obama campaign swiftly confirmed Obama's authorship of the fetal rights article Thursday after a source told Politico he'd written it. The campaign also provided a statement on Harvard Law Review letterhead confirming that the unsigned piece was Obama's - the only record of the anonymous authors is kept in the office of the Review president - and that records showed it was the only piece he'd written for the Review.

Well it's clear that most Americans STILL don't know a lot about Obama, the one. This vetting should have been done a long time ago.

I wonder if we will ever get to know "the real one" before the election on November 4th. There just isn't a whole lot of sustance to Obama's life that we can currently see. Is America's mostly liberal wolfpack press holding back on information like we saw them do with John$400 Edwards? I mean he has "kinda of sorta of" taken a position on the both sides of a lot of major issues. I just can't put my finger on the real Obama, can you?

Which is why, I believe most Americans will vote for "the comeback kid", McCain on November 4th. Here is someone that isn't caught up in the "material possessions" that he has, like how many homes he and his wife own. John Kerry, a real elite, can probably tell you how many he has. But when a man spends 5 1/2 years of his life in a POW camp I believe they come out of that experience "not caring one bit about how many material possessions" they can acquire. John McCain has always demonstrated that he's compelety in touch with the American people which is why he has voted with and against his party more than any other politician in modern times.

I trust John McCain completely. Other Americans will have to come to their own conclusions. McCain / Romney 2008

Looks like we might have found SoetorObama’s personal Willie Horton Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized No Comments

Not sure what to make of this because, we’ll admit, we’ve never read much about BAIPA and have to get up to speed on this, but it looks like FOX News is pushing audio tapes that catch SoetorObama in blatant lies regarding his stance on post-birth abortions.

It appears, in the audiotape on the YouTube video above, that he argues, well, just watch it for yourself.

It’s shocking a Democrat can think he’ll win the general election after making statements like this, but, then again, John “bathroom hider” Edwards thought he could win too, even considering everything he was up to.

But, suddenly, after hearing SoetorObama on this tape, hiding in the bathroom and fathering illegitimate children doesn’t sound so bad anymore. That’s not a left-handed compliment to Edwards, but a simple acknowledgement of how more terrible SoetorObama seems every day.

In the above, it’s around minute 4:56 is when SoetorObama gets himself in real trouble. Hannity calls him out on the lies.

Let’s see if journalists do their job and call SoetorObama out on this, of if they’ll just do what they always do instead:

but also seemed to demonstrate his continuing commitment to abortion rights, and suggested that the government may have more important concerns than "ensuring that any particular fetus is born."

Obama says he doesn't want his daughters "punished with a baby" as a result of a "mistake".Well he seems very concerned to me.Even to the point that if the baby survives a failed attempt on a late term abortion he has voted to still kill the baby.Dems dont play fair.IF a baby beats the odds and breathes a gasp of air he /she should live!!Killing the baby is murder.Funny thing too is when you hear of a kitten or puppy survive a fire these same democrats flood the kittens adoption line.

"Barack Obama originally emerged on the national scene as the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. This selection may have been based on factors that do not necessarily reflect merit, as he himself recognizes.

He has refused to answer questions about his days at Harvard (such holes in his life are a recurring feature). He was clearly a man of promise given the historic step that was taken when he was appointed President of the Law Review.

Has he fulfilled his promise as a legal scholar?

One thing he did not do while at the review was publish his own work. The absence of a paper trail is a pattern throughout his academic and to some extent his political career.

The pattern of leaving no intellectual footprints pre-dates Harvard. He has claimed he lost his senior thesis from Columbia University, where he majored in political science. The thesis was on Soviet nuclear disarmament. The depth of knowledge on display in Barry Obama's undergraduate thesis is of particular interest because he was wrong about a crucial Kennedy-Khrushchev conference, and about the diplomatic history between America and the Soviets.

How likely is it that someone would lose his senior thesis -- particularly someone who thought his life was compelling enough that he would write an autobiography just a few years later?"

this guy is as funny as he is scary! i am the brother in this scene and i have to admit i need work in acting but my boy the deniro guy is great!!

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After a series of court rulings and reversals, the Illinois Supreme Court held that the fetus doesn't have the right to sue its mother. The court warned that allowing a fetus to sue its mother could make them "legal adversaries from the moment of conception until birth."

It is the responsibility of the mother to care for that baby from conception to birth......Then if she doesn't want to keep and raise the child .she has several options 1) she can put the baby up for adoption (ther are many people who would love to adopt a baby when they can't haveone of their own). 2) Let the father decide if he wants the baby or no not.

I believe the father has as much right to the baby as the mother. Abortion just for abortion sake is murder plain and simple......and it should be treated as such.

It just hit me how to describe the arc of Obama Junior's life. He was a boring stoner until he got his hands on Malcolm X's books when he started political science at Columbia. Because his life has fantasy as a major theme (dreams about his father are better than it's reality, dreams about himself etc) his active fantasy life was really ignited by the radical afrocentric socialist criminals that were older than him and did something. They went to jail and were the real thing and kind of edgy and he wanted some of that excitement but was on the other side of the river and was stuck with being boring and stuck in mediocre world. The only thing Obama had most of his life was fantasy and drugs. Don't forget his father was a criminal and he was raised many years on welfare. He was not born movie star handsome and he does not have a high IQ. In fact he has stated he has attention deficit disease but he may be able to manage it. (He is concealing his medical records and treatment for it) Anyway, you can see every part of this theme verified in what he has said about his own life and how he wanted to become political too. To try to become nationally exceptable he is trying to conceal the criminal and dark parts that originally inspired him and unfortunately he has retained his natural born boringness. Listening to him talk one on one as a human being is almost torture with his slow brain and speech impediment but like Bette Davis when he is "acting" out one of speeches it's got a little more pizazz. This troubling genesis of where his inspiration really came from - murderers and thugs - is the structure of the story people are looking for to explain his entire narrative. People are uncomfortable with him because they intuit something is missing and I believe this is it. He is trying to hide this truth about himself because he knows it makes him unelectable but in hiding it he is perpetrating a FRAUD on all of us. I would like him more if he would "own" this part of himself and stop being too much of a femme to admit it. Of course I wouldn't ever like him enough to vote for him for anything that really counted but very few people will. Hillary could win the election but I actually prefer Dems to keep Obama so they can be whomped for unethically rejecting the will of the people and selecting Obama in their sleazy way. I know the rest of the country is holding this vibe as well. I think it'll be fun. Obama will probably pick Hillary but I hope she's not fool enough to take it - Obama could not win an American vote to be President no matter who stands beside him. He is nothing but deficits and is just down right toxic. Read all his law school papers he offered as the "best" of himself and it was high school level work that lacked impact - it is well known that he was a failure as a practicing lawyer. If not for Rezko and corruption he would still be telemarketing. Can you imagine the pickle Democrats are in?

"The problem of Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers will not go away. Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn were terrorists for the notorious Weather Underground during the turbulent 1960s, turning fugitive when a bomb — designed to kill army officers in New Jersey — accidentally exploded in a New York townhouse. Prior to that, Ayers and his cohorts succeeded in bombing the Pentagon. Ayers and Dohrn remain unrepentant for their terrorist past. Ayers was pictured in a 2001 article for Chicago magazine, stomping on an American flag, and told the New York Times just before 9/11 that the notion of the United States as a just and fair and decent place “makes me want to puke.” Although Obama actually launched his political career at an event at Ayers’s and Dohrn’s home, Obama has dismissed Ayers as just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” and “not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.” For his part, Ayers refuses to discuss his relationship with Obama.

Although the press has been notably lax about pursuing the matter, the full story of the Obama-Ayers relationship calls the truth of Obama’s account seriously into question. When Obama made his first run for political office, articles in both the Chicago Defender and the Hyde Park Herald featured among his qualifications his position as chairman of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a foundation where Ayers was a founder and guiding force. Obama assumed the Annenberg board chairmanship only months before his first run for office, and almost certainly received the job at the behest of Bill Ayers. During Obama’s time as Annenberg board chairman, Ayers’s own education projects received substantial funding. Indeed, during its first year, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge struggled with significant concerns about possible conflicts of interest. With a writ to aid Chicago’s public schools, the Annenberg challenge played a deeply political role in Chicago’s education wars, and as Annenberg board chairman, Obama clearly aligned himself with Ayers’s radical views on education issues. With Obama heading up the board and Ayers heading up the other key operating body of the Annenberg Challenge, the two would necessarily have had a close working relationship for years (therefore “exchanging ideas on a regular basis”). So when Ayers and Dorhn hosted that kickoff for the first Obama campaign, it was not a random happenstance, but merely further evidence of a close and ongoing political partnership. Of course, all of this clearly contradicts Obama’s dismissal of the significance of his relationship with Ayers.

This much we know from the public record, but a large cache of documents housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), is likely to flesh out the story. That document cache contains the internal files of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. The records in question are extensive, consisting of 132 boxes, containing 947 file folders, a total of about 70 linear feet of material. Not only would these files illuminate the working relationship between Obama and Bill Ayers, they would also provide significant insight into a web of ties linking Obama to various radical organizations, including Obama-approved foundation gifts to political allies. Obama’s leadership style and abilities are also sure to be illuminated by the documents in question.

Cover-Up? Unfortunately, I don’t yet have access to the documents. The Special Collections section of the Richard J. Daley Library agreed to let me read them, but just before I boarded my flight to Chicago, the top library officials mysteriously intervened to bar access. Circumstances strongly suggest the likelihood that Bill Ayers himself may have played a pivotal role in this denial. Ayers has long taught at UIC, where the Chicago Annenberg Challenge offices were housed, rent-free. Ayers likely arranged for the files of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge to be housed in the UIC library, and may well have been consulted during my unsuccessful struggle to gain access to the documents. Let me, then, explain in greater detail what the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) records are, and how I have been blocked from seeing them.

Initially, as I said, library officials said that I could examine the CAC records. I received this permission both over the phone and in writing. The subsequent denial of access came with a series of evolving explanations. Is this a politically motivated cover-up? Although at this stage it is impossible to know, it is hard to avoid the suspicion. I also have some concerns for the security of the documents, although I have no specific evidence that their security is endangered. In any case, given the relative dearth of information about Barack Obama’s political past, there is a powerful public interest in the swift release of these documents."

Holy Crap your comments here are crazy! I think most of you read the headline of the article and thought the worse before reading it. It shows that things he fights for today have been things he fought for early on in his life. It shows that he is not divisive when he makes his arguments and is courteous. It also shows he thinks things out, and is very much in the mainstream. All good qualities in a President but hey in this election I realized if you can tear people like Barack down then you can tear down anybody.

Following articles by NRO’s Stanley Kurtz and blog posts by Steve Diamond, it appears that some in MSM are starting to pay attention to the Barack Obama-Bill Ayers connection through the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.

RBO will attempt to keep up with developments by posting related articles on this link.

“Social Justice” and Other High School Indoctrinations, FrontPageMagazine, April 13, 2006. The Ed Schools’ Latest — and Worst — Humbug, City Journal, Summer 2006 edition. The Ghosts of Bill Ayers, FrontPageMagazine, October 17, 2006. Obama’s Real Bill Ayers Problem. The ex-Weatherman is now a radical educator with influence, City Journal, April 23, 2008.

Holy Crap your comments here are crazy! I think most of you read the headline of the article and thought the worse before reading it. It shows that things he fights for today have been things he fought for early on in his life. It shows that he is not divisive when he makes his arguments and is courteous. It also shows he thinks things out, and is very much in the mainstream. All good qualities in a President but hey in this election I realized if you can tear people like Barack down then you can tear down anybody

Hey Kourtney, I suggest you take it easy with the kool-aid...It really has gone to your head.....you have had too much already. If you think Obama is presidental material, then you are too far gone